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walkie-talkie

[waw-kee-taw-kee] / ˈwɔ kiˈtɔ ki /
NOUN
handheld transmitter and receiver
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On Sunday, McCullum was seen sending messages via walkie-talkie to the England players during drinks breaks as they squeezed home against Nepal in a last-ball nail-biter in Mumbai.

From Barron's Feb. 10, 2026

Left behind on the street outside the Louvre was the truck, a jerry can, a blowtorch, angle grinders, a walkie-talkie and yellow vests.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 31, 2025

Pitching coach Blaine Traxel will have the walkie-talkie to relay pitches to Brody, who will be wearing the earpiece behind home plate.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 26, 2025

They called in a detection van from the Post Office in an attempt to trace the walkie-talkie signal.

From BBC Nov. 16, 2024

She ran her fingers through her hair again, and then held her hand up to her mouth, as though speaking into an invisible walkie-talkie.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

The cameras zoom in on small figures of soldiers moving around the ruins, with the controllers directing the men on the ground through walkie-talkies, callsigns and headsets.

From BBC Feb. 24, 2026

Long-range walkie-talkies let the driver communicate with kids who have, for obvious reasons, decided to hide under the bed with them.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 30, 2026

Fuad Farhat, 55, from the area's Bab Touma district, was supervising the deployment of several unarmed, black-clad Christian men with walkie-talkies in front of the churches.

From Barron's Dec. 24, 2025

They had parked in the back of the facility, and they had walkie-talkies.

From Slate Oct. 27, 2025

“What about the treehouse? What about our walkie-talkies, man! We saved up for two months for these things.”

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser



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